The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Marianne Clark
September 6–21, 2013

The Importance of Being Earnest has long been a favorite of theatergoers who prize its almost unprecedented abundance of wit and paradoxical wisdom. The play's nutty characters are over the top, the sheer inventiveness of their idle observations and pursuits proves consistently and brilliantly hilarious. At the same time, one can't fail to miss Wilde's rapier-like social satire on the utter corruption, pretension and hypocrisy of upper-crust elites who, while hectoring the lower classes for their immorality, rarely observe solemn Biblical dictates in their own daily affairs.